I don’t think these people will ever realize anything, not until it severely fucks with their quality of life at least
It will severely suck very, very soon. As soon as they destabilize govs enough to get away with severe abuse of info.
Edit: they are destabilizing the ahit out of them quickly. This world is now a nightmare and not worth living in. But yeah, let’s criminalize abortions for kids who parents can’t afford them so they can be condemned to evergrowing poverty, shittier qualities of life, and depression. Yay!
The quality of life is already fucked, and that’s what caused those people to rally behind current regimes who promised to fix everything using whatever opportunistic buzzwords like immigrants or national volk, turning to reaction.
I mean the lack of privacy directly fucking them over. They have already proven to be unable to extrapolate actions leading to consequences beyond like 1 or 2 steps.
“Ultimately, arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
— Edward Snowden
No, they still don’t fucking get it. I’m so frustrated, I just stopped trying.
I’ve tried helping some spicy leftist groups and I’m still floored by how little the groups of people care who should absolutely know better. They will talk a big game but when it actually comes to implementation everyone immediately goes all “nothing to hide” like their years of constant guillotine reacts and memes won’t be pulled out in court the second they try to argue entrapment against some bullshit ci/undercover op.
I don’t think many people realize how aggressive a digital search warrant can get if you or someone dumber than you fucks around and finds that main character energy. At the end of the day you gotta absolutely minimize the amount of data that’s retained long term on systems.
We are literally living in a horribly written sci-fi movie with so many incompetent villains, that are all trying to take over at once. Never let anyone have access to your life unless they have a very good reason. You’re not ‘hiding’ anything, you are preventing unscrupulous individuals from exploiting you. Do you leave your car or home unlocked with the keys in the door? Preventing a crime before it happens is the reason Privacy is important.
I can assure you, most of them still don’t care.
This is accurate. I have a degoogled phone, no mainstream social media, and Linux OS. I have talked to my wife about the reason for my choices, so she is not ignorant about privacy or data gathering issues. She still uses Instagram and Facebook etc. And while she is a bit alarmed at bill C-2 being tabled in Canada (which would share Canadian private citizen info with the USA) I doubt she will think about it next week.
I can’t even get her to use a password manager properly. She used the same password everywhere and it scares me.
You’re too optimistic here. Such people will only realise their error if something bad happens to them that also screams at them that it was only possible because of their privacy eroding. They don’t usually connect the dots themselves.
The French need to bring back public square executions for the ruling class.
Out of the loop here. What incident(s) brought about this realisation?
The UK, the EU and soon the U.S. making it mandatory to give your ID when you want to see anything “NSFW”.
Maybe also payment processors folding before puritan christian nationalists.
Thank you. I did read some of the news. Just wanted to know if I missed something.
Unfortunately, I can already see the term “NSFW” being abused to fit whatever narrative the governments.
Moreover, it is setting a dangerous precedent for rest of the world, especially countries already leaning towards fascism.
It is I, the frenchiest fry~ guilty as charged.
In my defense, I don’t have anything to hide— I’m just not someone you want visible
I don’t have anything to hide, but I don’t have anything I want to show either.
Most people have been trained from a young age to value convenience over basically everything else. People also don’t like to step out of their comfort zone, and not having social media is seen by some as a social taboo and as isolationary by some.
Most people have been trained from a young age to value convenience over basically everything else.
This is the deal. Yes. People, at least here in the US, equate personal liberty with convenience; which is why you saw people willing to kidnap governors over being forced to wear a facemask, or attacking Red Lobster employees for being slow in bringing another basket of cheese biscuits.
Also why dead kids aren’t enough to get real progress on gun control.
I think when these tariffs really roll downhill and the supply chain is reconfigured within the next two years, the real and permanent impacts of Donald’s cavalier and reckless economic policies will be in full effect.
My boss literally said this to me yesterday. He was also outwardly concerned when I told him I closed my Facebook account and used a VPN.
That basically makes you a black hat hacker.
I wish I was joking or even exaggerating.
But talking, trying to explain does (sometimes) help. Like my boss who at first thought Linux was illegal.
I’d trade all my privacy and secrets if it meant we got to see the full Epstein files and everyone involved saw Justice.
